Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
PENFIELD, JOHN, born in Fairfield, Conn., married Patience Penfield of Vergennes, and came to this town in 1803; from Pittsford, and settled on the present homestead of Joel H. Sheldon.
They raised twelve children, all of whom lived to adult age: Horace, Eunice, Alma, Sarah, Daniel, Amoretta, Mary Ann, Laura, Maria, Harriet D., Fanny A. and Betsey S. Horace m. Caroline
Chandler, and died in Whitehall in 1864 aged 61; Amoretta m. John T. Barden, who died in Chautauque Co., N.Y.; Mary Ann m. ________McLaughlin, of Rutland; Betsey S. died in 1862.
He was deacon of the Congregational church several years until 1840, when he removed to Whitehall, N.Y. where he died in 1848, aged 74; his wife died in 1846, aged 64.
